welcome to my belated Ivy Bridge coverage so in front of me here I have a
few different processors uh some of the processors that we've tested are
represented by boxes here some of them are not but I want to start with outlining the overall Ivy Bridge lineup
so we have everything from the lowly 3450 so this is a core i5 that's a dual
core that has uh no k at the end so that
means this is not an unlocked overclocking processor although you can
still overclock it a little bit but n very very very limited it also has a 50
at the end of the part number and what that means is that it has HD 2500
graphics and that'll be important for one of my other videos where I'm going
to do an onboard Graphics Roundup where I compare the 2500 the 4,000 the older
last generation 3000 that was on sandybridge as well as AMD's 3 870k Apu
that has their onboard radon Graphics so let's hold on let's keep going though uh
so for the rest of lineup so what all this means i7 means you have hyperthreading I5 means no
hyperthreading the uh 30 whatever seems
to have some sort of indication in terms of the rank within the product stack a
50 versus a 70 means um 2500 versus
Intel HD graphics 4000 which is significantly more powerful from our
testing and then the K at the end means
that you have uh an unlocked processor
that can be easily overclocked and in this case the 3770k sample that we were
working with was able to easily achieve 4.6 GHz and that's 24/7 stable in fact
that is the setting that we used for our Max overclocking result so you know what
I guess we might as well just go with uh here I'm going to hide The igp
Showdown actually no I shouldn't yes I'll hide these ones for now there we go
so let's let's just go through this you guys let's do this as like a one take so
in terms of the tests that I ran my timing was fairly limited so with a
single GTX 680 I ran most of this other stuff so PC Mark 7 cine bench as well as
using either quicksync or no quicksync to quickly convert a video using arsoft
media encoder 7 so I took a 1 gig file and then I outputed it in an iPhone 4
compatible format and timed how long it took so I'll do that as sort of round
two through all of the tests so PC Mark 7 wise we can clearly see that the max
overclocked 3770k you know what I'll turn these into graphs all right so
we're just going to do these one at a time here's PC Mark 7 basically this
doesn't benefit as much from multiple cores as you might expect so our 8 core
processor the 8150 from AMD as well as our six core processor the
3930k don't actually do that well I mean the 3930k scores a little bit better
than it's Sandy Bridge Brethren remember this is Sandy Bridge e but the 8150 just
yeah doesn't doesn't do that well in this test you can see that it does
however benefit from significantly higher core clock speed so once we
overclocked our 3770k to 4.6 GHz the
score dramatically improved and we do get a slight Boost from hyperthreading
here you can see however though with Sandy Bridge we were pretty much within
margin of error on these two processors so yeah all of this take it with a bit
of a grain of salt remember this is still a synthetic
Benchmark here's our cinch test so you can see this was run in two different
settings single-threaded as well as multi-threaded so you can see the single
threading runs according to uh you know
increasing down the graph so that's the order it's sort of set up in however the
multi-threading is where some of these processors really differentiate each
other from each other so the 8150 gets
pretty much destroyed in the single-threaded test Falling by about to
about half of the score of the 3770 with the max overclock on it um however due
to its eight cores it does sort of make up some and Falls pretty in between the
2500k and the 3570k which is appropriate
given its price point uh the New Generation IV Bridge processors beat
their last generation Sandy Bridge equivalents by about 10% so this is
pretty much to be expected and then you can see here that the Sandy Bridge core
which is the same as on Sandy Bridge e the six core 3930k scores about the same
in the single thread however just sort of Stomps all over everything when it
comes to multi-threading because this is six course 12 12 threads you have to do
some serious overclocking that is about 4.6 GHz on ivybridge in order to get it
to catch up to Sandy Bridge e um in a
multi-threaded test like the cin bench test for Battlefield 3 guys remember
this is a custom run through so the results might not have the same kind of
consistency but I believe them to be well real world accurate so Battlefield
3 seems to care about multi-threading you can see here our 3930k performs
extremely well even running with the big dog in this test which is the 3770k at
its maximum overclock and remember a 3930k is good for at least you know a
reasonable overclock to 4. Mid GHz as well so there's more performance to be
squeezed out of it now unlike some CPU reviews I've gone with realistic
settings 108p High details so that's why you're not seeing much difference in
terms of the performance of these processors let's face it they're all
pretty close everything here uses Sandy Bridge everything here uses Ivory bridge
and this is the lone AMD CPU and the test you can see the FX 8150 doesn't do
that well but everything else is pretty close when it comes to the max FPS with
the 3770k max OC winning and everything else
here is pretty similar when it comes to the minimum FPS as well did I say Max
cuz I meant average so the red bar is average and the blue bar is the minimum
so this is all sort of within margin of error and this is the one that's really
lagging behind in this case if you want to see those numbers a
little bit better there you go running with my usual Witcher two
settings you can see again there's not much separation here in terms of
performance with the exception of the 393 6 uh
3930k which shows its prowess again with
its multi coreness as well as the 3770k
being the clear winner again and the 8150 being the uh lesser performing part
out of all of the parts in this particular
test I'm using yeah my usual settings I think I
already said that now it should be noted that while I am using realistic settings
for the games I'm using maybe a bit of an unrealistic configuration these are
dual 797s overclocked at 1.07 5
gigahertz um 8 gigs of RAM MSI z77a gd65
board I used an MSI x79 something or
other gd65 for LGA 2011 and then I used
a Crosshair 5 formula for the AMD test
bench I'm using an SSD for my boot Drive
Patriot wildfire and that's pretty much it let's get into the Skyrim results so
skym uh as you can see doesn't really like the 8150 very much and really
benefits from better IPC and higher clock speeds as you can see here more
than it benefits from multiple cores so
the clear winner in this guy is the 377k due to its overall faster than the other
stuffiness so guys actually I changed my mind about the uh the quicksync and uh
media encoder media converter 7 results
I'm just going to do a general overview of what's special about Ivy bridge and
we're going to wrap this one up as just a performance overview so Ivy bridge in
general what's special new 22 nanometer manufacturing process reasonable
overclocking although it does get pretty toasty you're going to want something like a Corsair h100 or an h80 to keep it
pretty cool if you want to go over around 4.5 GHz um performance wise yes
it's better than Sandy bridge I don't have a Sandy Bridge box to represent
here it is better than FX however FX Has
uh you know some pretty aggressive pricing going on and considering how
many cores are included there's something to be said for that and oh
yeah right other stuff Lucid virtue MVP is supported on the uh on the similar
time frame released z77 chipset you've also got support for overclocking
hyperthreading turbo boost as well as um
better onboard Graphics so the better onboard Graphics not only affects um if
you're using onboard Graphics but also affects if you are using uh media
converter 7 and you're using the igp in order to convert your media uh which is
like way I'm not going to spoil it but it's way way faster than any other way
of doing it especially with the new ibridge processors using the
hd4000 graphics uh virtue MVP basically is just
a way to use used the onboard Graphics to improve performance in games although
in my experience it didn't make that much of a difference and the spotty
consistency of the results of that particular technology made it not that
appealing to me the z77 platform with an ivy Bridge also supports PCI Express 3.0
which means your latest generation 7900 series 7800 series and 600 series
graphics cards are going to be able to really stretch their legs even if you're
using a mainstream platform that only supports 8X 8X bandwidth that is you
equivalent to PCIe 2.0 16x 16x so thank
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